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S6 E8 | 36 min
How Social Prescribing Saved My Life
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Caring for someone you love can feel overwhelming, isolating and at times impossible. Host Michelle Jobin is joined by Stephanie Van Buskirk, Caregiver Link Worker with the Ontario Caregiver Organization, and Karen Doughty, a caregiver who supported both of her parents through terminal cancer diagnoses during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Karen shares her deeply personal caregiver story of anticipatory grief, exhaustion, isolation and the quiet ways she lost herself in caregiving.

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